Places with an eerie or creepy vibe

[Anonymous]

I've lived in New Orleans and Savannah and don't find them creepy. More Southern Gothic or gritty, but I can see how some people don't understand the vibe. I also get the thing about Western Maryland although I'd call it depressed and methed out more than creepy.
The only place that every gave me a skin tingling, get-out-of-here vibe were the Hollywood Hills. I loved LA and Hollywood, but once I drove up into the hills, I got freaked out and had to head down. Never felt that before or since.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone else feel like the orange and yellow signs in Adirondack Park contribute to the weird feeling there? It's a weird combo of colors. Elsewhere in NY the signs are green and white like in most other states.

The Adirondacks are so odd. I LOVE the nature and terrain there. But 90% of the towns are sad and spooky. And in a state that is one of the wealthiest places on the planet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A whole section of Baltimore is so run down and decrepit that it looks like a war zone. Drove through it once and couldn't get out of there fast enough.

Yeah. There used to be an area in DC that was just as bad. Before the built the mats stadium there was an enormous housing project there. At some point they closed some of the buildings and boarded them up but then it was literally years before they knocked ithem down. There were always people sort of hanging around the boarded up buildings, with some of the boards tipped off and you definitely got the sense that there were sad, bad things happening there. They should have torn down the buildings as soon as they emptied them and just let the remaining kids use the open space for soccer or something.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mendocino County and Humboldt County, CA
Alcatraz
Salem, MA
Many parts of Arizona
Marseille, France

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Oh, wow! What do you find creepy about Mendocino and Humboldt? I wanted to go to school at Humboldt State, but I was afraid that I'd flunk out because I would always be hiking and kayaking. It's just gorgeous there, to me.[/quote]
I think the town is run-down and depressed looking and feels slightly dangerous. The Victorian houses and gray skies are an eerie combination. The woods up in that area are so thick and old and like you could just disappear and never be found. People who live in isolation on side roads. The college is in Arcata and maybe has a different vibe. I find the whole area beautiful but eerie at the same time like you have to respect nature's power and remember you're small and insignificant. [/quote]

Agree with this completely. It is so misty and full of desperation with lost souls who want to live on the fringes and disappear from regular society.[/quote]

I haven’t been up there, but I’m sure the fact that 10s or even 100s of billions of dollars of marijauana commerce has gone down up there over the decades is part of it.

That much of a black market brings elements that permeate everything. [/quote]
Oh yeah, this definitely contributed to the weirdness: add in secrecy, crime and paranoia. You would see rolling papers sold at supermarket checkout stands. Not sure if that's changed since legalization but it's isolated and remote so it's not changed in that way.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mendocino County and Humboldt County, CA
Alcatraz
Salem, MA
Many parts of Arizona
Marseille, France

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Oh, wow! What do you find creepy about Mendocino and Humboldt? I wanted to go to school at Humboldt State, but I was afraid that I'd flunk out because I would always be hiking and kayaking. It's just gorgeous there, to me.[/quote]
I think the town is run-down and depressed looking and feels slightly dangerous. The Victorian houses and gray skies are an eerie combination. The woods up in that area are so thick and old and like you could just disappear and never be found. People who live in isolation on side roads. The college is in Arcata and maybe has a different vibe. I find the whole area beautiful but eerie at the same time like you have to respect nature's power and remember you're small and insignificant. [/quote]

Agree with this completely. It is so misty and full of desperation with lost souls who want to live on the fringes and disappear from regular society.[/quote]

I haven’t been up there, but I’m sure the fact that 10s or even 100s of billions of dollars of marijauana commerce has gone down up there over the decades is part of it.

That much of a black market brings elements that permeate everything. [/quote]
Oh yeah, this definitely contributed to the weirdness: add in secrecy, crime and paranoia. You would see rolling papers sold at supermarket checkout stands. Not sure if that's changed since legalization but it's isolated and remote so it's not changed in that way. [/quote]

I don't know if it has changed much. There are still illicit growers. The cartels are involved.

I had a friend who lived up there for a period. Every harvest season he would trim plants and even for this low-risk, low-skill work there was a ton of money in it. He said that each year once he made a few thousand bucks he would quit. The money was tempting, but too much time sustained time in that world took its toll.

[Anonymous]

Look into haikyo
Abandoned places w histories

Pearl Harbour is pretty haunting.
All those young boys entombed below & that eerie oil coming out

The Cali Japanese internment camp is pretty chilling

[Anonymous]

The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO. My husband and I both commented on the creepy vibe and how it reminded us of The Shining. We later learned that it was Stephen King's inspiration for the novel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else feel like the orange and yellow signs in Adirondack Park contribute to the weird feeling there? It's a weird combo of colors. Elsewhere in NY the signs are green and white like in most other states.

The Adirondacks are so odd. I LOVE the nature and terrain there. But 90% of the towns are sad and spooky. And in a state that is one of the wealthiest places on the planet.

I think I posted way back in this thread about being creeped out by Lake Placid but I don’t want to scroll back to confirm. Anyway, 100% agree about the adirondacks. I know they’re supposed to be beautiful but just visualizing the area gives me a weird shivery feeling. I feel similarly about a part of northern New Hampshire.

[Anonymous]

Bratislava. Stayed at a really creepy hostel there.

[Anonymous]

Border between Arizona and Utah - Colorado City and other nearby desert towns. You can visibly see the polygamist homes with their multiple porches and families out & about. It’s weird AF. FLDS still has a strong hold of that area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else feel like the orange and yellow signs in Adirondack Park contribute to the weird feeling there? It's a weird combo of colors. Elsewhere in NY the signs are green and white like in most other states.

The Adirondacks are so odd. I LOVE the nature and terrain there. But 90% of the towns are sad and spooky. And in a state that is one of the wealthiest places on the planet.

I think I posted way back in this thread about being creeped out by Lake Placid but I don’t want to scroll back to confirm. Anyway, 100% agree about the adirondacks. I know they’re supposed to be beautiful but just visualizing the area gives me a weird shivery feeling. I feel similarly about a part of northern New Hampshire.

I also find the Adirondacks creepy and have my whole life. A family friend with a house there always wanted to loan it to us all the time (we were in NYC) and my parents thought it was just wonderful and so relaxing. I thought the whole place was haunted as a kid and would beg to stay home. Ugh. I still get that shivery feeling as an adult. It's like the energy is just "off" to me and I'm far from a woo woo crystal energy or ghost believing type.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Border between Arizona and Utah - Colorado City and other nearby desert towns. You can visibly see the polygamist homes with their multiple porches and families out & about. It’s weird AF. FLDS still has a strong hold of that area.

Never been, but it seems weird and creepy AF even in documentaries so I totally believe it has bad vibes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jerome, AZ. I went by myself during a slow time and it happened to be overcast and gloomy. It didn't help that I was staying in a hotel supposedly haunted by the ghosts of those killed in the mines.

+100. The crackheads in the main square didn’t help either.

[Anonymous]

Charleston.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a scientific reason why some places feel creepy.

https://higgs.ph.ed.ac.uk/outreach/higgshalloween-2021/haunted-frequency

Scientific? Hilarious.

This country is drowning in dumb.